The winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine is scheduled to be announced by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas is expected to announce his decision on whether to run in December presidential elections.

Pop star Michael Jackson is scheduled to hold his first South African concert in Cape Town, South Africa.

On the horizon

On Tuesday, October 7, Britain's Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh visit Pakistan.

On Wednesday, October 8, Maurice Papon, the former official
in German-occupied France, goes on trial for crimes against
humanity over deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps in Bordeaux, France.

On Thursday, October 9, the Falkland Islands hold general elections.

On Friday, October 10, The 2nd Pusan International Film
Festival opens in South Korea.

On Saturday, October 11, the 23rd General Population Conference is scheduled in Beijing.

On this day

In 1536, English religious reformer and bible translator
William Tyndale was burned at the stake as a heretic at
Vilvarde, near Brussels, on the orders of King Henry VIII.

In 1683, the first German settlers in America, led by Daniel
Pastorius and Johann Kelpius, established Germantown in what is
now Pennsylvania

In 1848, during the early stages of a revolutionary uprising
in Vienna, the minister for war, Theodor, Graf Latour, was
lynched by a mob.

In 1902, the 2,000-mile railway link between Johannesburg and
Beira, Mozambique, was completed.

In 1908, Bosnia and Herzegovina were annexed by Austria.

In 1913, Yuan Shih-kai was elected president of the Chinese
Republic.

In 1927, the film "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson
opened in New York. It was the first full-length feature film to
include spoken dialogue and is regarded as the first "talkie."

In 1928, upon the introduction of a new constitution,
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek became president of the Republic
of China.

In 1949, "Tokyo Rose," Mrs. Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who
broadcast Japanese propaganda to U.S. forces in the Pacific
during World War II, was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years
imprisonment and fined $10,000 on treason charges.

In 1951, the British High Commissioner in Malaya, Sir Henry
Gurney, was assassinated by communist terrorists.

In 1970, a military junta took power in Bolivia following the
resignation of President Alfredo Ovando Candia. General Juan
Jose Torres declared himself President.

In 1972, around 200 people were killed and over 1,000 injured
when a train packed with holidaymakers jumped the tracks near
the Mexican town of Saltillo.

In 1973, Egypt and Syria launched attacks on Israeli positions
on the East bank of Suez and the Golan Heights, the start of the
Yom Kippur war.

In 1976, the military seized power in Thailand following
violent clashes between police and students.

In 1978, Ayatolloh Khomeini, Iranian religious leader opposed
to the Shah, was granted asylum in France after being expelled
from Iran.

In 1981, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt was shot dead by
Moslem extremists as he watched a military parade in Cairo.

In 1992, Serb forces took the strategic town of Bosanski Brod,
putting them in control of northern Bosnia and within a few
hundred meters of Croatia.

In 1995, a bomb attack badly injured General Anatoly Romanov,
commander of Russia's forces in Chechnya.

Newslink

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